COG

v. n.

10 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.

2.
v.

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

3.
v.

To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift.

4.
n.

A trick or deception; a falsehood. Wm. Watson.

5.
n.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

6.
n.

A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

7.
n.

A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. Knight.

8.
n.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

9.
v.

To furnish with a cog or cogs. Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain.

10.
n.

A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.


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